Summary
Li Wen is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, cost-efficient backend services at major tech companies including Yahoo and Cardlytics. He has a strong track record of identifying performance bottlenecks and redesigning large-scale pipelines—cutting SLAs from over 24 hours to under 8 while reducing hardware use by 60%+. As a technical lead he blends hands-on engineering with cross-team coordination, shipping resilient systems like Yahoo’s image processing service and GDPR-compliant push notification clients. He excels at production incident support and integrating targeting/ads systems for privacy-driven requirements such as iOS 14.5+ adaptations. Based in San Jose and trained in computer science, he brings pragmatic architecture, proactive problem-finding, and measurable cost and latency improvements to complex distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience